PT-2003-1508 · Microsoft · Outlook Express

Timo Sirainen · Published 2003-05-15 · Updated 2016-10-18 · CVE-2003-0301

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The IMAP Client for Outlook Express version 6.00.2800.1106

Description: The issue allows remote malicious IMAP servers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by sending certain large literal size values. This can lead to either integer signedness errors or integer overflow errors.

Recommendations: For version 6.00.2800.1106, consider restricting access to untrusted IMAP servers to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-0301

Affected Products

Outlook Express

References · 2

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0301 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105294024124163&w=2 · Note